Dear all
I was wondering whether such a long post could be fortune-ed. What do you think?
Regards
Liviu
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Sharpie wrote:
> Well, I can think of three ways it can go down:
>
>
> 1. You want a shiny new pony.
>
> You ask about it on the mailing list and it seems th
I've stayed in by back seat in the spectators so far, but I feel
a comment may be helpful here.
I'm in close sympathy with Hadley Wickham's comment on a "previous
suggestion by a regular contributor" [Spencer Graves] (below) and
with the comment by Spencer himself.
We are a community with a varie
I've answered many email posts by copying and editing the email
footer. That's much more friendly, informative and effective than just
RTFM. (As previously noted in this thread, it's often hard to know
which FMTR.)
Spencer
On 8/21/2010 6:08 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
On Sat, Aug 21,
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> Regarding length, the portion at the end of every r-help message (but
>> this does not appear at the end of r-devel messages or the messages
>> of other lists concerning R):
>>
>> "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible
> Regarding length, the portion at the end of every r-help message (but
> this does not appear at the end of r-devel messages or the messages
> of other lists concerning R):
>
> "provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code."
>
> It was intended to provide a one line synopsis of
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>>> previous suggestion by a regular contributor. I still think a better
>>> response is not to escalate: Either ignore the post or say something like,
>>> "I don't understand your que
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 11:41 -0400, Donald Winston wrote:
> Who decides what features are in R and how they are implemented? If
> there is someone here who has that authority I have this request:
The R Core Development Team decide on what goes into the base R source
code.
You have almost zero cha
Paul Johnson gmail.com> writes:
>
[snip: lots more snippage to try get gmane to let me post]
> What do you think of this: The priority is to put the most important
> thing at the top. The second priority is brevity.
I really like this.
Some suggestions:
=
> Posti
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Hadley Wickham wrote:
>> previous suggestion by a regular contributor. I still think a better
>> response is not to escalate: Either ignore the post or say something like,
>> "I don't understand your question. Please provide a self-contained minimal
>> example
On Aug 21, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Laurent wrote:
> On 21/08/10 12:00, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Matt Shotwell wrote:
>>
>>> > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:58 -0400, Sharpie wrote:
>>
>> Donald Paul Winston wrote:
> (...)
>>
>> Donald P
I use the summary function. Being unfamiliar with the SAS report function, it
is difficult to answer more completely.
jim
On Aug 21, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Donald Winston wrote:
> Who decides what features are in R and how they are implemented? If there is
> someone here who has that authority I ha
Donald Paul Winston wrote:
>
> Who decides what features are in R and how they are implemented? If there
> is someone here who has that authority I have this request:
>
> A report() function analogous to the plot() function that makes it easy to
> generate a report from a table of data. This s
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Donald Winston wrote:
> Who decides what features are in R and how they are implemented? If there is
> someone here who has that authority I have this request:
>
> A report() function analogous to the plot() function that makes it easy to
> generate a report from
> previous suggestion by a regular contributor. I still think a better
> response is not to escalate: Either ignore the post or say something like,
> "I don't understand your question. Please provide a self-contained minimal
> example as suggested in the Posting Guide ... ."
I agree wholehearte
> A report() function analogous to the plot() function that makes it easy to
> generate a report from a table of data. This should not be in some auxiliary
> package, but part of the core R just like plot(). As a long time SAS user I
> cannot believe R does not have this. Please don't give me an
On 21 August 2010 at 11:41, Donald Winston wrote:
| Who decides what features are in R and how they are implemented? If there is
someone here who has that authority I have this request:
|
| A report() function analogous to the plot() function that makes it easy to
| generate a report from a tab
The *user* decides. That would be YOU.
Unlike SAS no one has a responsibility to YOU to implement some random request.
Packages are how things are implemented.
And to continue a previous thread ... maybe you should RTFM.
Jeff
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Donald Winston wrote:
> Who deci
Who decides what features are in R and how they are implemented? If there is
someone here who has that authority I have this request:
A report() function analogous to the plot() function that makes it easy to
generate a report from a table of data. This should not be in some auxiliary
package,
I've been inspired to look at the R source code by some strange timing
results that I wrote about on my blog at radfordneal.wordpress.com
(see the posts on "Speeding up parentheses..." and "Two surprising
things...".
I discovered that the strange speed advantage of curly brackets over
parentheses
I am reminded of a cartoon I saw recently in a urologists office that said:
"In this line of work, I see a lot of ass holes and pricks."
There is no shortage of people who are nasty, both among those who seek help
and those who are able to give it, in any community. I would say, though,
that inst
On 21/08/10 12:00, r-devel-requ...@r-project.org wrote:
On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Matt Shotwell wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:58 -0400, Sharpie wrote:
>>
>> Donald Paul Winston wrote:
(...)
>>
>> Donald Paul Winston wrote:
>>>
>>> It appears R insists on directing plot output to
Hello,
RTFM is a succinct and useful answer in many cases, yet somewhat
impolite. A not much more verbose verbose version of it, possibly still
more useful, and quite polite would be something like:
"Please, read rule #NN at http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html";
(asuming that paragra
Hello, All:
I think there is a logic to Gabor's perspective, especially
regarding unintended consequences.
For example, if the as a result of changing policy, our most
creative and substantive contributors decide to reduce their level of
contribution and are not effectively re
Simon Urbanek пишет:
On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Vyacheslav Karamov
wrote:
x.ru>>>
Hi All!
I'm new to R and I need to know is it possible for R to
generate
C/C++ source code, Java byte code or
Dear Gabor,
I do not agree with your claim
"In the case of the R list there is a
larger potential demand for free help than resources to answer and
without the usual monetary economics to allocate resources I believe
that the functional purpose of rudeness here is to ration those
resources and mi
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